On Jan 26, 2008 6:59 PM, Miklos Vajna <vmiklos@frugalware.org> wrote:
On Fri, Jan 25, 2008 at 07:48:37PM -0500, Jeff Mickey <jeff@archlinux.org> wrote:
I also feel this is an important tool people should have offline.
do you have a mirror on your own computer? if not, searching offline is not so important. (i think the bigger benefit is that you could search from command-line. - which can be handy when you don't want to suck with elinks and you don't have x.)
By offline, I meant it it shouldn't query a server every time someone does a search, I think it should be from a local file on your computer. Increasing the load on mirrors etc would be a bad idea.
findpkgfile -y # download filelists from some given mirror
from where? if the filelist database is outdated, it makes no sense, so if it's not supported by the maintainers of the give repo keeping it up to date is quite problematic imho.
Not to blow minds here or anything, but my idea is that we would have a .gz or .bz2 file that is hosted by all the mirrors, and you download it every now and then. You don't need to download it every day, and by it being a separate tool, we could do delta files instead of a straight download. And yes, even if my filelist is a day old, there is still a decent chance I'll find the package I'm looking for. A simple patch to repo-add fixes your "quite problematic" issue. // jeff -- . : [ + carpe diem totus tuus + ] : .